Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 28, 2021

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Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 28, 2021

Fixate (verb)

 مضبوط کرنا، منجمد کرنا

"cause (someone) to develop an obsessive attachment to someone or something."

Examples:

• It's not suspicious that I'm fixating. It's consistent with my personality.
• Back in London, he became fixated with his best friend's daughter.

Synonyms: obsessed with, preoccupied with/by, obsessive about, single-minded about, possessed by

Antonyms: uninterested

Devour (verb) 

کھا جانا، شوق سے

eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly.

Examples:

• He devoured everything on his plate. 
• The lions devoured their prey.

Synonyms: eat hungrily, eat quickly, eat greedily, eat heartily, eat up, swallow, gobble (up/down), guzzle (down)

Antonyms: eat out, eat in, reassure, underspend

Curiosity (noun) 

تجسس، دلچسپی، شوق

"a strong desire to know or learn something"

Examples:

• She waited a moment and then curiosity got the better of her. 
• It was done for curiosity's sake.

Synonyms: inquisitiveness, interest, spirit of inquiry, nosiness

Antonyms: indifference, heedlessness, disregard

Prejudice (noun) 

بدگمانی، طرفداری، تعصب

"harm or injury that results or may result from some action or judgement."

Examples:

• The police do not want to prejudice an investigation. 
• There was prejudice in the workplace culminating in her resignation a year ago.

Synonyms: detriment, harm, disadvantage, damage, injury, hurt, impairment, loss, disbenefit
Antonyms: judgment, fairness, impartiality, advantage

Communal (adjective) 

فرقہ وارنہ، گروہی

shared by all members of a community; for common use.

Examples:

•  There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats. 
• Communal violence broke out in different parts of the country. 

Synonyms: shared, joint, common, general, public, collective, cooperative, community
Antonyms: private, individual

Conscience (noun) 

ضمیر، عدل، اپنے دل کی گواہی

"a person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour"

Examples:

• She's got a terribly guilty conscience about it. 
• Anna and her conscience had a little tussle.

Synonyms: sense of right and wrong, sense of right, moral sense, still small voice, inner voice, voice within
Antonyms: pure, evil, wrongness, immoral

Strap (verb)

 پٹا، چمڑے کی پٹی، کسنا، مارنا، پیٹنا

fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap.

Examples: 

• She watched him tighten a strap around the horse's belly.
• He fingered a heavy strap attached to the head.

Synonyms: fasten, secure, tie, bind, make fast, lash, buckle, truss, pinion
Antonyms: unbind, untie, undo, unfasten

Fringe (noun) 

محیط، حدود

"the border or outer edges of an area or grou"

Examples: 

•  She has a fringe and glasses.
•  The company plans to beef up our fringe benefit. 

Synonyms: perimeter, periphery, border, borderline, margin, rim, outer edge, edge
Antonyms: middle